January 31, 2011 at 6:23 PM EST  |   With social media helping organize the throngs of protesters taking to the streets of Egypt, we spoke with Mohammed el-Naway of North Carolina's Queens University of Charlotte, author of "Islam Dot Com," for some insight on social media and Internet...

January 31, 2011 at 5:13 PM EST  |   EGYPT PROTESTS | Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports on the crowds of protesters gathered in Cairo despite an ongoing curfew and planned Tuesday demonstrations that organizers hope will bring more than a million people to the streets. Then,...

January 31, 2011 at 4:58 PM EST  |   Updated 5:45 p.m. ET A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law - in its entirety - unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and attorneys...

January 31, 2011 at 4:45 PM EST  |   Protest organizers in Egypt have called for a massive turnout on Tuesday as their calls continue for the ouster of long-time President Hosni Mubarak. Check back here at 6 p.m. ET to watch a live stream of the NewsHour's...

January 31, 2011 at 4:43 PM EST  |   Filmmaker Chris Paine achieved notoriety with his 2006 documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Now he's back -- with a more sanguine sequel, "The Revenge of the Electric Car." Producing two stories about the electric car myself, the second of...

January 31, 2011 at 4:11 PM EST  |   Dozens of supporters of the demonstrators in Egypt gathered on Sunday afternoon in front of the White House. Holding banners and Egyptian flags, they chanted, "One, two, three, Mubarak has to flee." One banner said, "Pharaoh Mubarak: Let my...

January 31, 2011 at 3:55 PM EST  |   Federal guidelines on what Americans should -- and should not -- be eating were released on Monday. Among them: reduce daily salt intake to less than 2,300 milligrams; less than 1,500 mg if you're 51 and older, according the...

January 31, 2011 at 1:44 PM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In this edition of the Political Checklist, Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff discuss how a foreign affairs crisis like the popular revolt in Egypt forces a White House to change its script....

January 31, 2011 at 11:47 AM EST  |   As a preview to our Tool$ Tuesday feature , here's a truly surprising "review" of the Chevy Volt, the electric darling of the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month and the...

January 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM EST  |   The Brittle-Stars Danced. The Stingray Smoked a Pipe. Sea creatures with bodies like snakes and heads like sea urchins. Monkeys with Lollipop Paws. Dancing brittle-stars. A wonderful, whimsical article on the connection between nonsense verse and biology and the role...

January 31, 2011 at 8:46 AM EST  |   In this White House photo taken Friday, President Obama talks on the phone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as Vice President Joe Biden and the national security team listen in the background. Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty...

January 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM EST  |   A week after protesters first converged on downtown Cairo, tens of thousands continue to march and call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down after 30 years in office. Mubarak's televised announcement after midnight Saturday did little to placate...

January 30, 2011 at 1:00 PM EST  |   Updated 3:30 p.m. ET Egyptian demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square, in central Cairo, on Jan. 31, 2011, on the seventh day of protests against long term President Hosni Mubarak's regime. The Egyptian army announced it will not...

January 29, 2011 at 10:45 AM EST  |   Updated 5:45 p.m. ET | Protesters returned to the streets of Cario and other cities in Egypt Saturday, renewing calls for embattled President Hosni Mubarak to step down. State television reports that Mubarak has named a vice president for the...

January 28, 2011 at 7:50 PM EST  |   We're back. It's 2011, and we're bringing our brand of political flavor to new audiences around the globe. Unfortunately tonight, many of our Doubleheader devotees in Egypt will not be seeing our work. President Obama called for Egypt to open...

January 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM EST  |   As the political revolt in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world continues to gain momentum, we want to make sure you have the best resources for keeping up with the latest developments. The NewsHour staff compiled some of...

January 28, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST  |   EGYPT'S PROTESTS SPREAD | Thousands of Egyptian protesters defied a nationwide curfew in Cairo and other cities, continuing clashes with police. Military forces were deployed, but some were greeted by protesters. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports on the...

January 28, 2011 at 4:40 PM EST  |   Updated 6:45 p.m. ET President Obama delivered a statement Friday on the Egypt protests from the White House. He said he spoke to President Mubarak on the telephone and urged him to "give meaning" to pledges of better democracy and...

January 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM EST  |   President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years." In a speech to Families USA, a consumer advocacy group...

January 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM EST  |   After our conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," Dr. Mukherjee offered to answer some questions submitted by NewsHour viewers. _pap_embeddable; We received many questions on a...

January 28, 2011 at 2:10 PM EST  |   Seldom have I watched the president's annual speech to the joint session of Congress with anticipation that had so little to do with the contents of the address itself. By now we surely know that - aside from the...

January 28, 2011 at 1:10 PM EST  |   All seven crew members were killed when the Challenger shuttle exploded during take-off on Jan. 28, 1986. I was fast asleep when the Challenger exploded. It was almost high noon - but I had turned in only about three...

January 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; While Steve Jobs' decision to take medical leave from Apple marked a shakeup in its leadership, it's clear that his company is still in good shape. That's evidenced as we mark one year since the introduction...

January 28, 2011 at 10:47 AM EST  |   All this week we've featured investment advisor Jon Shayne, aka Country-and-Western economist Merle Hazard, warbling his way through the European debt debacle. He started with the pain in Spain and moved on through Erin Go Broke to the tune...

January 28, 2011 at 9:25 AM EST  |   Executive Director of the Global Fund Michel Kazatchkine marches with AIDS advocates at the 2010 International AIDS Conference. Global Fund Facing Corruption Backlash In the wake of press reports of flagrant corruption within some projects backed by the Global...

January 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM EST  |   Demonstrators in Cairo, Suez and Alexandria have continued their anti-government protests despite the government's warning of "decisive measures," the arrest of more than 1,000 people and the disabling of internet and mobile phone access. Seven people have died in the...

January 28, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST  |   Vice President Biden says running with Barack Obama in 2008 was "the best decision I've made." Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images. At the end of Jim Lehrer's interview Thursday with the vice president, he asked Mr. Biden to...

January 27, 2011 at 6:48 PM EST  |   If you listened to their respective press conferences Thursday and heard the sometimes bitter tones in their voices, you might have thought that the Republican and Democratic members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission didn't agree at all on...

January 27, 2011 at 5:49 PM EST  |   In an exclusive interview with the NewsHour, Vice President Joe Biden told Jim Lehrer Thursday afternoon that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the target of anti-government demonstrations in Cairo, is someone he knows "fairly well" and does not consider to...

January 27, 2011 at 5:27 PM EST  |   Part of the reason people join the PBS NewsHour for news events like the State of the Union is because we give you the primary source without too much clutter. There are no NFL-style dancing robots with whiz-bang sound effects....

January 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST  |   Protesters face off with riot police in Suez, Egypt. The Tunisia-inspired protests in Egypt demanding the end to President Hosni Mubarak's rule continued Thursday and, if organizers' predictions are correct, will continue in even greater force...

January 27, 2011 at 4:30 PM EST  |   Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul started off Thursday's first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill with this question: "Is the Tea Party still a force in America?" The Republican's query was met with a roar in the...

January 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM EST  |   A large sampling of ancient stone tools unearthed from a once-fertile area in the Persian Gulf Basin may indicate that early humans migrated from Africa much earlier than previously thought. The artifacts, dug up from the Jebel Faya archeological...

January 27, 2011 at 3:13 PM EST  |   Today's post introduces the fourth of country singer Merle Hazard's Euro-shanties, this one taking off on the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th. Merle will do anything to educationally amuse. So will we....

January 27, 2011 at 1:22 PM EST  |   President Obama answered user-submitted questions on his State of the Union address in a special interview on YouTube Thursday. Some 140,000 questions have been submitted and voted upon -- the president will answer some of the most popular queries....

January 27, 2011 at 11:28 AM EST  |   What a relief: a SOTU address without the traditional partisan whack-a-mole standing ovations. "Date night's" civility - or, if you prefer, lack of passion - had the virtue of keeping Democrats and Republicans mostly in their seats. Sitting cheek by...

January 27, 2011 at 9:48 AM EST  |   Hubble has peered back into the far-ancient past and spotted a tiny galaxy of blue stars, possibly the oldest ever seen, researchers reported in the journal Nature. In images, it's underwhelming - just a faint smudge of light. But...

January 27, 2011 at 8:05 AM EST  |   President Obama delivers his State of the Union address. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Most national polls show former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at or near the top of any potential Republican field in 2012, and Wednesday...

January 27, 2011 at 7:40 AM EST  |   Yemeni students march through the streets of the capital Sanaa on their way to the Tunisian embassy on Jan. 26, 2011. Inspired by the protests in Tunisia that ousted the country's president and by the demonstrations...

January 26, 2011 at 5:22 PM EST  |   Reactions continue to roll in regarding President Obama's latest State of the Union address , plus the pair of responses from the GOP. Here is a roundup of reaction stories...

January 26, 2011 at 4:56 PM EST  |   No matter what the conversation, for Republicans, all roads seem to lead back to government spending. GOP'ers believe there's way too much of it. President Obama and most Democrats agree, but argue it's dangerous to cut too deeply while...

January 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM EST  |   STATE OF THE UNION REACTION | One day after his State of the Union speech that focused on job creation and innovation, President Obama toured an energy technology firm in Wisconsin. It was the first of several stops to promote...

January 26, 2011 at 1:23 PM EST  |   One day after his State of the Union speech, in which he focused on job creation and keeping the U.S. economy competitive, President Obama traveled to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to speak at Orion Energy Systems, a company that focuses on...

January 26, 2011 at 1:06 PM EST  |   By "hits," I mean Merle Hazard's Golden Newbie Euro-crisis Euro-tunes, as well as the Internet views that they've been garnering. Monday's post: The Pain in Spain Falls Plainly from Merle's Brain. Yesterday's: Erin Go Broke. And today, the world debut...

January 26, 2011 at 10:41 AM EST  |   We're collaborating with the team at Universal Subtitles on a unique project around this year's State of the Union. It's an effort to make the video of the speech available to non-English speaking viewers, in the U.S. and abroad, using...

January 26, 2011 at 9:06 AM EST  |   President Obama is greeted following his State of the Union address Tuesday night. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night was far closer to the launch of a re-election campaign than to...

January 26, 2011 at 7:33 AM EST  |   Egypt's interior ministry has warned against further political demonstrations, saying they will be met with arrest and prosecution. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday, echoing similar protests in Tunisia. Some in the crowds chanted slogans...

January 26, 2011 at 2:00 AM EST  |   Watch more videos: Rep. Paul Ryan Delivers GOP Response Shields and Gerson on the GOP Response Rep. Michele Bachmann Delivers Tea Party Response Watch Reactions From Lawmakers on Capitol Hill Watch the Full NewsHour Special Report On Tuesday evening,...

January 26, 2011 at 12:49 AM EST  |   PBS NewsHour Capitol Hill producer Linda J. Scott spoke with lawmakers from both parties at the U.S. Capitol immediately following President Obama's State of the Union address for reactions to the speech. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said it started a...

January 25, 2011 at 5:42 PM EST  |   White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs talks to Gwen Ifill about spending and the budget deficit as part of a preview of President Obama's State of the Union address. Watch the full interview on Tuesday's NewsHour....

January 25, 2011 at 5:29 PM EST  |   STATE OF THE UNION | At the midpoint of his term, President Obama is expected to emphasize bipartisanship to address critical issues, including the economy and federal spending, as he reaches out to a Republican-dominated House of Representatives in his...

January 25, 2011 at 5:14 PM EST  |   _pap_embeddable; In his new book "The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease....

January 25, 2011 at 4:15 PM EST  |   Neutrinos are teeny, tiny, nearly massless particles that travel at near lightspeeds. Born from violent astrophysical events like exploding stars and gamma ray bursts, they are fantastically abundant in the universe, and can move as easily through lead as...

January 25, 2011 at 4:11 PM EST  |   Amid new calls for political civility after the Tucson shooting, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, have led a campaign for a bipartisan seating plan at Tuesday's State of the Union -- reversing a tradition that usually...

January 25, 2011 at 3:25 PM EST  |   Gun legislation is back in the spotlight after the shooting in Tucson that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six. Long before the rampage hit the headlines, several states had been moving to broaden gun rights, arguing the way...

January 25, 2011 at 3:18 PM EST  |   Demonstrators clash with police in central Cairo. Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt's capital in an unusual spate of anti-government protests, spurred by online postings in the wake of mass protests in...

January 25, 2011 at 1:05 PM EST  |   A protester displays a defaced portrait of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images A set of 10 diplomatic cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks offers some insight into the recent upheaval in Tunisia and...

January 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM EST  |   Today's post puts the economic woes of the Emerald Isle to music. The lyrics are Hazard's, though I confess to have taken crack at them myself and then, at some risk to my ego, sent both sets of lyrics --...

January 25, 2011 at 8:31 AM EST  |   Police officers patrol Moscow's Domodedovo international airport after Monday's explosion. Photo by Oxana Onipko/AFP/Getty Images. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had harsh words for officials at Domodedovo airport one day after at least once suicide bomber detonated an estimated 11...

January 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM EST  |   President Obama is set to deliver his second State of the Union address Tuesday night. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett took to the morning shows Tuesday to preview President Obama's State of the...

January 24, 2011 at 6:06 PM EST  |   RUSSIAN AIRPORT BOMBING | An explosion in the international arrivals area of Moscow's largest air travel hub, Domodedovo Airport, killed at least 35 people in what President Obama called "an outrageous act of terrorism." Russian authorities believe a suicide bomber...

January 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM EST  |   The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Monday it has "zero tolerance" for corruption, and downplayed a media report claiming flagrant misuse of funds within some projects backed by the organization. The Associated Press reported Sunday it...

January 24, 2011 at 4:10 PM EST  |   On Monday, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter in the Jan. 8 rampage that left 6 dead and 13 injured in Tucson, Ariz., was arraigned in federal court in Phoenix. He faces five federal charges: attempted assassination of a Congress member,...

January 24, 2011 at 3:03 PM EST  |   In this week's Political Checklist, NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff preview President Obama's State of the Union address, which is expected to include mention of job creation and how to handle the federal deficit, among...

January 24, 2011 at 2:12 PM EST  |   The first of this week's series of posts from the ever-melodic, ever-economic Merle Hazard debuts today: a ditty on the plight of Spain....

January 24, 2011 at 11:27 AM EST  |   Giant Crayfish Found in Tennessee is new Species A new species of crayfish was spotted climbing out from under a rock in Tennessee, according this Reuters story. It is five inches long -- that's twice the size of other crayfish...

January 24, 2011 at 9:53 AM EST  |   Police officers, firefighters and rescuers gather outside Moscow's Domodedovo international airport on Jan. 24, 2011, soon after a suspected suicide bombing killed at least 31 people and wounded over 100. Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET An...

January 24, 2011 at 7:59 AM EST  |   Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor are readying the GOP's response to President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Senate Minority...

January 24, 2011 at 7:42 AM EST  |   Jared Lee Loughner, the accused shooter in the Arizona shooting rampage, is expected in court Monday afternoon for a preliminary hearing on charges of murder and attempted murder. He also faces charges of attempted assassination. If convicted, he could face...

January 21, 2011 at 6:01 PM EST  |   Many of you have asked how the relaunched PBS NewsHour is doing, now that we've celebrated our first birthday. The short answer is: very well. Simon Marks, president of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, recently prepared a more detailed answer for a TV...

January 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM EST  |   Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., announced Friday he was skipping this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, siding with critics who feel the annual gathering of conservative activists has become too friendly with pro-gay and libertarian groups. "With leading conservative organizations not...

January 21, 2011 at 5:14 PM EST  |   GE CEO TAPPED FOR JOBS PANEL | President Obama named General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to a new economic advisory panel. The move was announced before the president spoke at a plant in Schenectedy, N.Y., where he praised America for...

January 21, 2011 at 4:36 PM EST  |   Friday's post consists of a Web chat with the Elvis of economics, the Ferlin Husky of finance, the Charlie McCoy of micro, the Jimmy Dean of the dismal science -- star of the country-and-western macrocosm, investment adviser Jon Shayne...

January 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM EST  |   I am not such a fan of celebrating anniversaries for their own sake. Much of what we say on such occasions is rote - if not trite - and the true meaning of observance is easily lost. But there were...

January 21, 2011 at 12:20 PM EST  |   An ambulance with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., drives down a street during her transfer from the University Medical Center on Friday in Tucson. Giffords is being moved to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas; John Moore/Getty Images Rep. Gabrielle...

January 21, 2011 at 11:27 AM EST  |   The Road Ahead for Health Reform House Republicans fulfilled their campaign promise to challenge last year's landmark health reform legislation, voting 245-189 to approve a repeal measure. But now Republicans are gearing up for a longer campaign. They plan to...

January 21, 2011 at 11:18 AM EST  |   Republicans Call for USAID Cuts A group of 165 Republican members of the House of Representatives are calling for drastic spending cuts in foreign aid, including $1.39 billion a year from USAID, which funds health and development programs around the...

January 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Near Gwanghwamun Plaza, where statues of King Sejong and Adm. Yi Sun-sin regally stand, is a colorful pagoda under renovation, fenced-off in a corner and surrounded by high-rise office buildings. It's not unusual to see...

January 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM EST  |   Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Chicago on the second stop of his state visit to the United States, visiting a prep school and an exhibit on Chinese companies operating in the Midwest. His arrival snarled traffic and was greeted...

January 21, 2011 at 7:35 AM EST  |   President Obama has picked Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to head a new jobs panel. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama has tapped General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt to head a new outside economic...

January 20, 2011 at 6:15 PM EST  |   Wearing an elegant white evening gown, Jacqueline Kennedy smiles as she delicately makes her way through a Washington snowstorm. The men around her are expressionless as they help the future first lady get to a ball hosted by Frank...

January 20, 2011 at 6:06 PM EST  |   Despite slight variations in data, a flurry of reports from different agencies has reached the same general conclusion: 2010 takes the prize as one of the hottest years ever recorded. The World Meteorological Organization, which released its global temperature...

January 20, 2011 at 6:00 PM EST  |   The House Ways and Means Committee announced Thursday that its first hearing will be next Wednesday, one day after President Obama's State of the Union address. Among other tasks, Ways and Means is one of the committees charged with GOP-led...

January 20, 2011 at 5:41 PM EST  |   HU MEETS BUSINESS LEADERS IN U.S. | Wrapping up his visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao met with political and business leaders. Jeffrey Brown evaluates his visit and the impact on the business world with Myron Brilliant of the...

January 20, 2011 at 5:14 PM EST  |   Americans love to take note of anniversaries, both good and bad. We remember the ends of World Wars I and II, the exact moments of the Sept. 11 terror attacks -- and events less momentous. We note the birthdays...

January 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM EST  |   Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; Getty Images file photo Members of the Republican Study Committee, the conservative caucus among House Republicans, unveiled Thursday the Spending Reduction Act of 2011, a sweeping list of spending cuts the group...

January 20, 2011 at 3:37 PM EST  |   Several governors throughout the country have announced their budget proposals for 2011. Education is one of the many public services already strapped-for-cash state governors are proposing to take funds from to alleviate budget woes. Here's a round-up of state budget...

January 20, 2011 at 1:32 PM EST  |   In terms of keeping promises, Wednesday's vote to repeal the health reform law stands as a significant checkmark on the House Republican agenda, but what does it mean outside of Washington? Maybe not as much as GOP leaders hope....

January 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM EST  |   On the heels of a joint news conference with President Obama, a state dinner and meetings with congressional leaders, Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered remarks to American and Chinese business leaders on Thursday in Washington. The themes he put...

January 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM EST  |   The rapid pace of development over the past few decades that has made China the world's second largest economy has also caused another growth explosion--an unprecedented wave of urbanization. Learn more about China's 10 largest cities, according to United Nations...

January 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM EST  |   In its heyday, it boasted nearly two million people, the world's premier automobile industry, the world's most popular music , and perhaps the country's most prosperous black middle class. But Detroit's population is down 50 percent, as are wages in...

January 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Signs with "wellbeing" written in English are popping up all over Korea from corner markets to high-end spas. Its meaning: a healthy and wholesome body inside and out. Bangok Ju, warming up with a cup...

January 20, 2011 at 8:32 AM EST  |   Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama at a news conference Wednesday at the White House. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The morning after a lavish state dinner in his honor, Chinese President Hu Jintao is headed to Capitol...

January 20, 2011 at 8:17 AM EST  |   A new poll shows a positive approval rating for President Obama. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. In the aftermath of the tragic shootings in Tucson and following a lame-duck congressional session full of positive headlines for the White House,...

January 19, 2011 at 6:48 PM EST  |   The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's landmark health reform legislation -- a mostly symbolic vote since the Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to pass repeal and might not even consider the measure. The final House vote was...

January 19, 2011 at 5:54 PM EST  |   CHINESE PRESIDENT VISITS WHITE HOUSE | Jeffrey Brown examines the undertones of the meetings between presidents Hu and Obama with Susan Shirk of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, David Shambaugh, director of the China Policy...

January 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM EST  |   President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao answered reporters' questions in a news conference at the White House Wednesday after meeting with business leaders from both countries. Both presidents emphasized cooperation and the need for a positive relationship between...

January 19, 2011 at 3:05 PM EST  |   House Republicans are delivering on a campaign promise that helped fuel their many of election victories last year by debating a measure to repeal last year's health reform law. A vote should come later Wednesday. Here's Betty Ann Bowser's report...

January 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM EST  |   Philadelphia's City Hall building. Photo via Flickr user Th.omas. PHILADELPHIA | High atop the city hall the statue of William Penn looks down on this city and sees a city that stands as a symbol of the hopes and...

January 19, 2011 at 11:22 AM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name: Sam Question: I immensely enjoy your segments on PBS. I am intrigued by the...

January 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   With Chinese President Hu Jintao visiting Washington and questions over China's support of North Korea in the air, we visited a Seoul train station to ask South Koreans their opinions on China and its behavior. Their translated responses: Kim Sang...

January 19, 2011 at 8:30 AM EST  |   Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Hu Jintao listen to the U.S. national anthem during Tuesday's arrival ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Chinese President Hu Jintao will spend Wednesday meeting with President...

January 19, 2011 at 8:23 AM EST  |   Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., was first elected to the Senate in 1988. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. Updated at 1 p.m. ET | Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., confirmed Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in 2012 and will...

January 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM EST  |   NOVA has enlisted the help of New York Times technology reporter David Pogue to answer the question: 'What will the future be made of?' The new miniseries called "Making Stuff" is a four-part look at the materials and innovative technologies...

January 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM EST  |   On a day when debate began on the House floor over whether to repeal the health care law passed last year, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer both met with the media in separate news conferences. Cantor...

January 18, 2011 at 4:13 PM EST  |   HEALTH CARE REFORM | The House of Representatives resumed business Tuesday with debate over a repeal of the health care reform bill passed 10 months ago. The measure is not expected to pass the Senate. Betty Ann Bowser reports on...

January 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM EST  |   Since as early as the 1930s, a variation on simple table salt has been used to keep wintry roads from getting dangerously slippery. The mechanism is simple: When liquid water freezes into ice, the loose water molecules arrange themselves...

January 18, 2011 at 2:05 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> SEOUL, South Korea | On the eve of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington -- with the North Korea issue near the top of the agenda between him and President Obama -- I sat down...

January 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM EST  |   Update: 10:15 a.m. ET, Wednesday Jan. 19 President Obama welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao during a State Arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 19, 2011. During official welcoming remarks...

January 18, 2011 at 12:56 PM EST  |   The Chinese currency debate has developed a new twist in recent months: Chinese inflation. The argument, made by Columbia University economics professor Geng Xiao in an updated story of ours running on Tuesday's broadcast, is that the rise in Chinese...

January 18, 2011 at 12:30 PM EST  |   SEOUL, South Korea | Many consider the sinking of the South Korean Navy ship Cheonan on March 26, 2010 as the start of the latest bout of North-South agitation, which has been smoldering ever since. North Korea denied involvement...

January 18, 2011 at 11:40 AM EST  |   Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.; Getty Images file photo North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, who has served in the Senate for the last 24 years, said Tuesday that he will not seek re-election next year, marking the first Democratic senator...

January 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM EST  |   With Congress returning to scheduled business this week, the House of Representatives, led by Speaker John Boehner, is set to take up a proposed repeal of the health care reform law. The debate, originally scheduled for last week, was postponed...

January 18, 2011 at 8:43 AM EST  |   The U.S. Capitol. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. The House of Representatives returns to work Tuesday after putting legislative business on hold for a week to reflect on the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people...

January 18, 2011 at 8:42 AM EST  |   Chinese President Hu Jintao is headed to Washington on Tuesday in preparation for a series of meetings with President Obama and a state dinner. President Hu will also make a stop in Chicago. Both leaders are expected to emphasize economic...

January 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM EST  |   Why Dire Climate Warnings Boost Skepticism Dire predictions on climate change don't seem to be working. Even while scientific evidence that humans are causing global warming continues to mount, belief in climate change doesn't. So why the disconnect? A small...

January 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM EST  |   Over the past ten days, the story of 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman in the Tucson shootings, has unfolded on news outlets throughout the world. It's a dark tale of a troubled young man who was growing increasingly out...

January 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM EST  |   As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling. Only 25 percent of people polled now support repealing the health care...

January 17, 2011 at 12:52 PM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Sharon McDonnell Question: I am so very sorry we do not have a larger...

January 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM EST  |   In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., we have compiled archival videos, documentaries, commentaries, discussions and reports about his life, legacy and the Civil Rights movement....

January 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM EST  |   PANMUNJOM, Korean border | Although it stands for the "demilitarized zone," the DMZ is the most militarized border in the world, U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor told us during our recent tour of the buffer zone...

January 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST  |   Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' condition was upgraded to serious after her ventilator was removed. The congresswoman from Arizona has been breathing on her own and communicating by hand signals with her doctors. Giffords was shot in the head eight days ago...

January 15, 2011 at 12:30 PM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> SEOUL, South Korea | After last year's lethal attacks on a South Korean warship and civilian-populated island - and with thousands of North Korea's artillery pieces and much of its million-man army just 30 miles up...

January 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM EST  |   This will not come as news to our Twitter followers , but we spent last weekend at the annual economics convention, held this year in Denver. Every January we buttonhole economists of various stripes and political persuasions to pose a...

January 14, 2011 at 5:45 PM EST  |   Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Roll Call/Getty Images It took seven rounds of balloting, but when all the votes were finally tallied Friday the early frontrunner to replace Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee secured...

January 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM EST  |   TUNISIA UPHEAVAL | Amid demonstrations unprecedented during his more than two decades in office, authoritarian Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced to step down as thousands converged on the interior ministry building in the capital of Tunis. Judy...

January 14, 2011 at 4:18 PM EST  |   Michael Steele emerges from closed door meeting with supporters and heads to ballroom at Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Photo by David Chalian Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has ended his candidacy for a second term....

January 14, 2011 at 4:06 PM EST  |   President Obama was joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, and a crowd of dignitaries Friday at the Kennedy Center for a service honoring Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan...

January 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM EST  |   They just keep coming. When we arrived in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, we went to University Memorial Hospital, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in intensive care. It was chaotic. Frustrated police officers did their best to direct heavy traffic...

January 14, 2011 at 1:15 PM EST  |   When Congress returns to Washington to begin work in earnest following the shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people in Tucson, gun control advocates will likely be making the case for new measures. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D- N.Y.,...

January 14, 2011 at 12:59 PM EST  |   Malaria patient in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Promising New Malaria Vaccine An effective malaria vaccine may be on the horizon: a Phase II trial published in the Lancet this week showed an experimental vaccine cut the risk of...

January 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM EST  |   Vice President Joe Biden announced today that Bruce Reed, who was most recently executive director of the Simpson-Bowles debt commission and is a veteran of the Clinton administration, will replace Ron Klain as his chief of staff. The move comes...

January 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM EST  |   Last week in this space, I mused about how quick we can be to over interpret events and ascribe tenuous meaning to actions that so often defy explanation. Less than 48 hours after I posted that column, 19 people were...

January 14, 2011 at 11:42 AM EST  |   Updated 3:30 p.m. ET Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali stepped down from office Friday, driven from power by angry demonstrators who had demanded he step down. His exact location is unconfirmed. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, an ally of Ben...

January 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM EST  |   After Shooting, House Resumes Repeal Agenda House Republicans said Thursday that the House will take up a vote to repeal the health care reform law next week, resuming their legislative agenda one week after it was delayed by the...

January 14, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST  |   Reince Priebus, left, and Republican National Committee chief Michael Steele participate at the chairmanship debate earlier this month. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. It's Election Day for the 168 members of the Republican National Committee. They will head into...

January 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM EST  |   Death Toll Rises to More Than 500 in Brazil After Floods, Mudslides A man stands at his doorway observing the wreckage caused by mudslides and flooding in Teresopolis, some 100 km from downtown Rio...

January 13, 2011 at 5:26 PM EST  |   ARIZONA TRAGEDY | Mourners remembered 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green in first of the funerals for the six victims killed in the Tucson shooting. Doctors treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. said she continued to show signs of recovery. JARED LEE LOUGHNER...

January 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM EST  |   Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2010 Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, announced Thursday that she will not run for a fifth term in 2012, leaving a wide-open Republican primary. Hutchison, who was first elected in 1993 and...

January 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM EST  |   Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's whirlwind media tour swept through Washington, D.C., Thursday, the city he hopes to make his home a little more than two years from now. "I'm seriously considering it," Pawlenty said of a potential 2012...

January 13, 2011 at 4:38 PM EST  |   Scientists have discovered a four-foot-long, meat-eating dinosaur, with serrated teeth and long finger bones, that roamed the earth some 230 million years ago. The fossils are among the earliest dinosaur bones ever found, and the finding, which was published...

January 13, 2011 at 3:59 PM EST  |   We've devoted a fair portion of our reporting over the past year to home ownership and foreclosure. Some of those stories ran again, with updates, during the last week of the year. Today comes the official tally for 2010: more...

January 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; If Defense Secretary Robert Gates' prediction this week is correct, and North Korea is developing a missile -- nuclear or otherwise -- that can hit the United States, U.S. and allied forces are prepared...

January 13, 2011 at 12:19 PM EST  |   As muddy river water swept through parts of Australia, inundating more than 20,000 homes and claiming at least 15 lives, it also poured into the ocean, where it now threatens one of the country's most precious natural ecosystems: The...

January 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM EST  |   Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri was meeting with President Obama at the White House when the resignations came in. Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman announced Thursday he will launch formal talks next week to...

January 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   South Koreans enter 2011 still smarting from two North Korean attacks last year -- on a warship in March and an island in November -- that together killed 50 of their citizens. We've been asking South Koreans how they now...

January 13, 2011 at 8:30 AM EST  |   Floods, Mudslides in Brazil Kill at Least 350 Heavy rain and mudslides in the mountainous towns of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis in southeastern Brazil...

January 13, 2011 at 8:24 AM EST  |   President Obama speaks during a memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., for the six people who were killed and 14 wounded in the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The Morning Line starts off this...

January 12, 2011 at 10:08 PM EST  |   Updated 10:05 p.m. ET More coverage of Wednesday's memorial service: Intern Daniel Hernandez: 'I Am Not a Hero' Gwen Ifill Gets Reactions From Historians, Analysts Several memorials are planned Wednesday for the victims of the shooting rampage in Tucson...

January 12, 2011 at 9:16 PM EST  |   President Obama traveled to Tucson Wednesday to help memorialize those who died in Saturday's shooting rampage, and to honor those who are still struggling with their wounds. He clearly chose to stay above the fray of the partisan commentary...

January 12, 2011 at 7:45 PM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; On Wednesday's NewsHour, we remembered the victims from last Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Here in silence are the six that died and 8 of the 13 injured. The names of the other five have not been...

January 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM EST  |   PRESIDENT OBAMA IN TUCSON | At a memorial service on the University of Arizona campus, President Obama will remember the victims of Saturday's shooting and honor those still recovering from their injuries, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. We'll carry the...

January 12, 2011 at 5:30 PM EST  |   Last weekend's tragedy in Tucson has stirred up several conversations, including one about the nation's gun laws. Some are disturbed that a young man as troubled as accused gunman Jared Loughner appears to be found it easy to buy a...

January 12, 2011 at 2:46 PM EST  |   The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has drawn new attention to the security of public officials. From the attempt on President Andrew Jackson's life in 1835 to the shooting of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, look back at previous...

January 12, 2011 at 2:17 PM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: Name: Charles, San Francisco, Calif. The Fed Chairman and President Obama often complain that the...

January 12, 2011 at 12:36 PM EST  |   The Arizona shootings have renewed the debate over gun rights and restrictions and the easy access to weapons in some states. On Tuesday's NewsHour, Judy Woodruff talked to James Cavanaugh, who recently retired as a special agent in charge for...

January 12, 2011 at 9:35 AM EST  |   Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more. Rick Loomis, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Haiti one day after...

January 12, 2011 at 8:38 AM EST  |   An autographed portrait of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is displayed at a makeshift memorial outside the hospital in Tucson, Ariz., where she is in critical condition. Photo by Shaun Tandon/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama is traveling to Tucscon for a memorial...

January 12, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST  |   People light candles at a makeshift memorial in front of University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in a critical condition. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. President Obama is set to deliver remarks about Saturday's...

January 11, 2011 at 6:49 PM EST  |   Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing six people this week and wounding 14 others, including his target Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, joins an infamous roster of gunmen -- 23-year-old Virginia Tech shooter Seung-hui Cho, Columbine high school seniors Eric...

January 11, 2011 at 6:20 PM EST  |   Much of the media's attention has been focused on the community of Tucson, Ariz., since a gunman opened fired on a crowd gathered to see U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., on Saturday. Christopher Conover...

January 11, 2011 at 6:00 PM EST  |   The family of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has just issued a statement on the rampage that left six people dead and 14 others wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The statement handed to reporters outside the Loughner's home. Their...

January 11, 2011 at 4:52 PM EST  |   And what constitutes an "earthlike planet" anyway? The Kepler Space telescope has found a small, rocky planet, the smallest yet found orbiting a star outside our solar system, the Kepler team announced Monday at the annual meeting of the...

January 11, 2011 at 3:09 PM EST  |   Updated ARIZONA SHOOTING | Surgeons treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., are tentatively optimistic about her recovery but caution that surviving an injury of this magnitude is a long and uncertain process. Gwen Ifill has the latest. GUN LAWS | Arizona's...

January 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM EST  |   Ray Suarez in Haiti, July 2010 This past summer, I stood at the edge of a fetid pool of standing water. Marooned in the middle of the deepening pool were two forlorn soccer goals, indicating a place that wasn't...

January 11, 2011 at 11:55 AM EST  |   When last year's earthquake struck Haiti, more than 4,000 inmates escaped from prison. They easily slipped into the streets of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, hiding in the city's slums and tent cities. A crippled police force found themselves once again...

January 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM EST  |   Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's today's query: Name: Paul, El Cerrito, Calif. I have been a dedicated viewer of your segments on...

January 11, 2011 at 8:37 AM EST  |   Jared Lee Loughner, accused of killing six people and wounding 14 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., appeared in court Monday to hear the five charges against him, which include murder and attempted assassination and could bring him the death...

January 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM EST  |   Theresa Como Smith, left, and her children Blanche, Isaac and Silas, of Malone, N.Y., sign books of condolences in the Cannon House Office Building Rotunda for the victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call....

January 10, 2011 at 6:22 PM EST  |   While the nation was transfixed by the tragedy in Tucson, California's new governor, Jerry Brown, announced Monday a plan that could dramatically alter the state's welfare, health care, education and other programs. In office only a week, Brown announced...

January 10, 2011 at 5:17 PM EST  |   ARIZONA SHOOTING | Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., remains hospitalized in critical condition as colleagues, family and friends mourn the loss of the six people who died in Saturday's shooting at a political meet-and-greet in Tucson. The alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared...

January 10, 2011 at 4:40 PM EST  |   New figures on reconstruction aid to Haiti reveal that while billions have been pledged, international donors were slow to deliver funds in 2010. Some key figures: International donors pledged $2.01 billion for Haiti reconstruction and recovery efforts in 2010,...

January 10, 2011 at 4:33 PM EST  |   Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old Arizona man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 19 others at a meet-and-greet event outside a store in Tucson, appeared in court Monday on a total of five charges, including murder, attempted murder,...

January 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM EST  |   Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., who was found guilty on charges of money laundering in November, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Texas judge Monday. He was accused of funneling corporate money to candidates in...

January 10, 2011 at 3:31 PM EST  |   On Monday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctors said that the congresswoman is "not out of the woods yet" but that her brain has not shown any more signs of swelling, and that doctors are "slightly more optimistic" about her chances for...

January 10, 2011 at 12:34 PM EST  |   In this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff reflect on Saturday's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz, and 19 others at a political meet-and-greet in Tucson on Saturday....

January 10, 2011 at 12:31 PM EST  |   In Women's Tears, a Chemical that Says, 'Not Tonight, Dear' When a man gets close enough to sniff a woman's tears, his sex drive and hormone levels drop, but his mood and empathy remain unchanged, according to a new study,...

January 10, 2011 at 10:51 AM EST  |   President Obama called for a national moment of silence to remember the six victims killed in the Arizona attack at a political event. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., remains in critical condition. Hundreds of staff workers and...

January 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM EST  |   Congregants at St. Martin de Porres Church in Bentiu, South Sudan display their voter ID cards on their way to the polling center. BENTIU, Sudan | It is a rare day in southern...

January 10, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   Map of Odusan Unification Observatory courtesy of ROK Drop TONG-IL JEONMANGDAE, South Korea | "Look, there it is. That's North Korea," says Lee Hoon, standing with me and provincial Gov. Kim Moon-Soo on the observation platform of a huge...

January 10, 2011 at 8:43 AM EST  |   Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and killing six people at a political event in Tucson, is scheduled to appear in court Monday at 4 p.m. ET. Loughner is charged with murder, attempted murder...

January 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM EST  |   The flag flies at half-staff outside the Capitol in memory of the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona that killed six people, including a federal judge, and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images. A...

January 8, 2011 at 3:11 PM EST  |   Updated 2:15 p.m. ET, Monday, Jan. 10 President Obama called for a national moment of silence in honor of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other victims of the shooting rampage in Arizona Saturday that killed six people. Giffords remains hospitalized...

January 7, 2011 at 6:01 PM EST  |   Sudan begins voting Sunday on a referendum that will decide whether the South will secede from the North. On Friday's NewsHour, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from South Sudan on how one town is getting ready for the vote. Fred's...

January 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM EST  |   NEW JOBS NUMBERS | Employers added 103,000 new jobs in December and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4%, but the recovery fell short of forecasts and underscored the long and painful recovery still facing the U.S. economy. Judy Woodruff looks...

January 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM EST  |   Updated: Jan. 10, 11:50 a.m. Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Sunday postponed the House's legislative agenda, including a planned Wednesday vote to repeal health care reform, due to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The NewsHour's Morning Line reports:...

January 7, 2011 at 2:46 PM EST  |   On Thursday, as their first act, members of the new Republican-led House read the U.S. Constitution aloud. The reading was not about civics - one would assume lawmakers have the basics down by now - it was a sign...

January 7, 2011 at 2:38 PM EST  |   The emergency response phase in Haiti is not yet over, but the process of reconstruction is moving forward, Ambassador Kenneth Merten told Jeffrey Brown this week in Port-au-Prince. "We are at the one year point now, and things have been...

January 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM EST  |   I was all set to label our monthly post on the unemployment data "Hold Your Horses" or "Not So Fast," a warning not to overplay the apparently sizable drop in the official unemployment rate from 9.8 percent to 9.4....

January 7, 2011 at 11:40 AM EST  |   Just a few weeks before Christmas in 1996, I was seated in the front row in an auditorium at the Old Executive Office Building across from the White House. My job, then for NBC News, was to cover the announcement...

January 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM EST  |   Rounding out our series today, those of you considering strategic default might find particular encouragement from the web chat with law professor Brent White of the University of Arizona, who thinks it is both legally and morally okay. "It's interesting...

January 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM EST  |   Sudanese prepare to move south. Residents of southern Sudan vote Sunday in a long-awaited referendum on whether to split from the north and form their own country. Analysts expect the oil-rich south will choose independence in...

January 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM EST  |   The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday that unemployment had fallen by 0.4 percent to 9.4 percent in December. Though employers added 103,000 jobs, the figures are lower than forecasted, indicating a a slower-than-expected recovery. Throughout 2010, the unemployment figure...

January 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM EST  |   President Obama is set to tap Gene Sperling, left, as his top economic adviser. File photo by Jay Mallin/Bloomberg via Getty Images. With a new day comes yet another staff announcement by the White House. President Obama is set...

January 6, 2011 at 5:58 PM EST  |   Corail tent camp outside Port-au-Prince. NewsHour photo. Rape in Haiti Camps The risk of rape and other sex crimes for women living in Haiti's tent camps has increased over the past year, according to an Amnesty International report released...

January 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM EST  |   Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that he'd cut $78 billion from the Pentagon's budget in the coming five years by shrinking the military ground force, raising health care premiums for troops and some other politically unpopular cost-saving measures. ""We...

January 6, 2011 at 5:38 PM EST  |   A study that linked the Measles, Mumps & Rubella vaccine to autism was "fraudulent," and based on manipulated data and patient records, according to an investigation published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. It may be the final death...

January 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM EST  |   NEWSMAKER: DEFENSE CHIEF ROBERT GATES | As federal deficits rise, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is looking for ways to cut spending by close to $100 billion in the next five years, a sign that even the Pentagon's massive budget is...

January 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM EST  |   Researchers collect water samples to study bacteria and methane gas. Photo by Elizabeth Crapo/NOAA As soon as oil began spewing into Gulf of Mexico waters, bacteria went to work, gobbling up mass amounts of methane. And as the oil...

January 6, 2011 at 3:03 PM EST  |   Senate Democrats came out swinging Thursday against the new House Republican majority, claiming that proposed exemptions and tax cuts will increase the federal deficit. They say Republicans will be spending more than they are planning to cut, exactly what they...

January 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM EST  |   While members of Congress took turns reading the Constitution out loud on the House floor Thursday -- a move initiated by the new Republican majority -- there's a serious battle just getting underway over one section of the document...

January 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM EST  |   Aung San Suu Kyi; photo by Platon for Time Over the last two decades, many of the world's famous and powerful have found themselves in front of Platon's camera. The renowned portrait photographer dropped his last name early in...

January 6, 2011 at 1:15 PM EST  |   Updated 2:50 p.m. | President Obama introduced William Daley as his new chief of staff Thursday, calling him an experienced public servant, devoted patriot and friend. Daley, a former Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton with Wall Street experience,...

January 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM EST  |   Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the cholera story...

January 6, 2011 at 10:05 AM EST  |   More from the strategic default debate today. Economist Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago, also in our original story, argues there are damaging spillover effects when homeowners strategically default. "By walking away, not only do you damage...

January 6, 2011 at 9:56 AM EST  |   Members of the new Congress devoted a portion of their second day of the new term to reading the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. Read an annotated guide to the full text of the Constitution,...

January 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM EST  |   Representatives convene Wednesday for the first day of the 112th Congress. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. A civics lesson will transpire before C-SPAN cameras at 10:30 a.m. Thursday as Republicans have scheduled a reading of the U.S....

January 6, 2011 at 7:31 AM EST  |   A U.S. Marine walks down the main market in Musa Qala in Helmand province. File photo by Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that an additional 1,400 Marines will head to Afghanistan this spring in an effort...

January 5, 2011 at 5:44 PM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; On Wednesday's NewsHour, Miles O'Brien reports on the way that teens interact with technology, and how Facebooking, texting, gaming and constant digital multitasking may be shaping developing adolescent brains. Do teens pay a price for the...

January 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM EST  |   NEW CONGRESS KICKS OFF | The 112th Congress convened Wednesday, and Republicans once again were in the majority in the House of Representatives. Jim Lehrer examines the challenges ahead with historian Michael Beschloss and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise...

January 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM EST  |   After two decades in Congress and a midterm election that saw his party regain control of the House, Ohio Republican John Boehner is now the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives. Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks before...

January 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM EST  |   One of the many camera counters at I-Park mall in Seoul SEOUL, South Korea | In search of a memory card for our camera, we stumbled into the I-Park mall, a dazzling cornucopia of electronic gear. There are eight...

January 5, 2011 at 11:44 AM EST  |   We've been concentrating on the housing crisis over the past several days here on the Business Desk. For the rest of the week we'll be focusing on the issue of strategic default. If you're an underwater homeowner who can afford...

January 5, 2011 at 11:31 AM EST  |   Christians and supporters held a mass protest in Cairo following the bombing. Photo by AFP/Getty As Egypt's Christian community prepares to celebrate Coptic Christmas eve on Thursday, many are still mourning the New Year's Day car bombing of a...

January 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM EST  |   Pakistani children in flooded town of Khairpur Nathanshah It is hard not to sympathize just a bit with Pakistani officials who, amid widespread accusations of a feeble, uncoordinated response to last summer's floods, argue...

January 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM EST  |   _pap_embeddable; Republicans officially take control of the House today, and a vote to repeal the health care reform law is at the top of their agenda. But with President Obama in the White House and a Democratic-controlled...

January 5, 2011 at 8:20 AM EST  |   Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, will be sworn in Wednesday as House Speaker. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. After 20 years in Congress and a midterm election that saw his party net 63 seats, Ohio Republican John Boehner will become...

January 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM EST  |   Pakistani police guards carry the coffin of late Punjab governor Salman Taseer during the funeral procession in Lahore on Jan. 5, 2011. Thousands of mourners gathered in Lahore amid tight security for the funeral of Salman...

January 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM EST  |   Skygazers across the Eastern Hemisphere watched as a partial solar eclipse darkened the sky Tuesday morning and changed the sun's shape into that of a crescent moon. Since much of the world didn't get a chance to witness it in...

January 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM EST  |   On New Years Day, residents of Beebe, Ark., awoke to find some 5,000 dead blackbirds strewn across roads, lawns and rooftops. Three days later, 125 miles from Beebe, thousands of fish were found dead on riverbanks and floating along...

January 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM EST  |   A LOOK AHEAD AT THE NEW CONGRESS | The 112th Congress kicks off Wednesday, setting up a battle over the budget as Republicans take control of the House with vows to cut government spending. Gwen Ifill looks ahead with Diane...

January 4, 2011 at 2:29 PM EST  |   Say this about Americans: they are nothing if not hopeful. While 2009 and 2010 may have brought economic trouble and pain, the mood among most Americans appears surprisingly upbeat going into 2011. In each of Patchwork Nation's 12 county...

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January 4, 2011 at 10:30 AM EST  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> With Korean peninsula tensions at an all-time high, Margaret Warner is in South Korea this month to report on military and social issues. Before she left, she sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to describe her plans for...

January 4, 2011 at 10:01 AM EST  |   The complexities of getting or refinancing a mortgage are many: the broker you can or can't trust, the screening of your income and credit, the appraisal, the fear that rates will rise before approval, the title search, the paperwork at...

January 4, 2011 at 8:29 AM EST  |   Pakistani policemen cordon off the site of a fatal attack on Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab state, by his bodyguard in Islamabad on Jan. 4, 2011. The governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state,...

January 4, 2011 at 8:25 AM EST  |   President and Mrs. Obama wave before boarding Air Force One as they depart from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, where they spent an 11-day family vacation. Photo by Cory Lum/Pool-Getty Images. After nearly two weeks out of town,...

January 3, 2011 at 6:00 PM EST  |   Jan. 12 will mark one year since a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti. The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown is reporting in Port-au-Prince and beyond this week on life in the country a year later, the recent cholera outbreak and more. Brown filed...

January 3, 2011 at 5:38 PM EST  |   STATE BUDGET WOES | As new governors begin their terms, they face some expensive, old problems. Gwen Ifill discusses state budget woes with three public media reporters: John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for KQED Public Radio; Karen Kasler, capitol bureau...

January 3, 2011 at 5:16 PM EST  |   Jerry Brown wasn't movie-star smooth at his inaugural ceremony Monday. His head bobbed up and down as he read from a script without a teleprompter. But there was something real about him, which is probably part of the reason...

January 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM EST  |   For many of the newly-elected governors assuming leadership this week, the traditional honeymoon period is going to be marred by a grim dose of reality. Governors in places like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, New York and California are inheriting state...

January 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM EST  |   Not surprisingly, a poor economy does not bode well for college grads trying to enter the job market. "The last couple of years have been a very, very tough time to be coming out of college," said Richard White in...

January 3, 2011 at 1:44 PM EST  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff discuss the Republican agenda as the party retakes control of the House of Representatives this Wednesday....

January 3, 2011 at 11:32 AM EST  |   Your mortgage is underwater. Making the payments is both difficult and demoralizing. Is it ethical for you to walk away? As we've reported, there are arguments both ways. Here's a feature to help you make up your mind. Public...

January 3, 2011 at 10:51 AM EST  |   Updated Jan. 5, 2011, 5:33 p.m. White House officials say that the Obama administration will the remove controversial references to end-of-life counseling during annual Medicare check-ups from a new Medicare regulation, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The move comes...

January 3, 2011 at 8:42 AM EST  |   Michael Steele's tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee appears to be coming to an end. File photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Before speaker-to-be John Boehner receives the gavel from outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and delivers a...

January 3, 2011 at 8:24 AM EST  |   Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, is flanked by leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Qaid-e-Azam as he talks to the media after their meeting in Lahore on Monday. Pakistan's prime minister won tentative support at crisis talks...